Male genital disease

A male genital disease is a condition that affects the male reproductive system. The human male genitals consist of testicles and epididymides, ductus deferentes, seminal vesicles and ejaculatory ducts, prostate, bulbourethral glands, and penis.^[1]

Male genital disease
Specialty	Urology

Classification by type of disease

Infection

Aetiological agents

Main article: Aetiology

Bacterial

• Erythrasma^[2]
• Balanoposthitis^[2]
• Fournier's Gangrene^[2]

Fungus

• Candidiasis^[2]
• Tinea cruris^[2]

Parasites

• Cutaneous larva migrans^[2]
• Pubic lice^[2]
• Scabies^[2]
• Tick^[2]

Virus

• Molluscum contagiosum^[2]
• Herpes: simplex, zoster^[2]

Cancers

The probability of contracting a cancerous development depends on age, ethnicity and the existence, or non-existence, of environmental causation. Unlike all other genitally situated cancers, the incidence of penis cancer is related to the sexual mode of transmission.^[3]

Inflammation

An example of a male genital disease is orchitis.^{[citation needed]}

Classification by location of disease

Penis

• Mondor's disease is a non-common disease^[4]
• Peyronie's disease is diagnosed when there is evidence of scar tissue formation within the tunica albuginea, tissue which contributes to the maintenance of the erectile state^[5]

Prostate

The three most statistically frequently occurring diseases of the prostate gland are benign hyperplasia (a swelling of the gland, not due to cancerous accumulation), prostatitis (inflammation), and cancer^[6] (which is the accumulation of malignant cells in the gland).^[7]

See also

Female genital disease